God s Five-fold Ministry

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1 God s Five-fold Ministry Brother Cecil ducille Atlanta, Georgia Friday Afternoon December 30 th, 2005 I believe that we will have a church where the apostolic vision will be clear and plain and straight, where the prophets will prophecy, where the evangelists will evangelize, where the shepherds will shepherd, where the teachers will teach, and they will all say the same thing. Hallelujah. This is what God says He is going to have before Jesus comes. He is not saying that He is going to have it when Jesus comes. He is going to have it before His appearance. Let me put it that way, because Jesus comes can mean more than one thing. Before the appearing, or parousia (G3952) of Jesus Christ, He will have a church without spot, without blemish, without wrinkle, or any such thing (Ephesians 5:27). Hallelujah. The LORD began to speak to me about the situation. I saw my right hand. I saw the right hand, and I know that God has a right hand and a left hand. The right hand always depicts the Spirit, and the left hand always depicts the natural. It is easy for me to pick this [Bible] up with my right hand, but if I am going to pick this [podium] up, I need two hands. He began to show me a peculiar thing, and I saw all of you brethren participating. Can everybody hold on to your thumb for me? Take your left hand and hold your right thumb. Now feel how awkward it is to try to lift up anything, you know, to do anything without your thumb. Now hold the other finger that represents the prophet (index finger), and see what happens? It is not as bad when you hold that finger, but it is awfully awkward. Now hold the evangelist (middle finger). Then hold the other fingers. It seems to me that ALL of them are essen- tial, and God would not have a church without them. But the one finger that is there, maybe it functions halfway but it is painful and it is hard to lift. You still can work it, but you have pain when you work it. Some arthritis or something is in the finger and it doesn t work very well. Nevertheless, unless it is a chronic situation, nobody would know. Let us read some scriptures. Amen. Let us turn to Psalm 110:1, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. Psalm 98:1, O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory. His right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory. Sometimes we repeat scriptures and we never think very much about them. What is God s right hand anyhow? We also need to consider that if God has a right hand, then He has a left hand. He said, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. So we see then that God s right hand is a Spirit hand. The peculiar thing is that God wants the left hand to be in with the right hand to bring forth the victory. David went forth into battle, and it was he that went in to slaughter the enemy, but when he came out, he said that it was His right hand that had gotten them the victory. God wants to be in us. A revelation came to me some months ago. God was walking in the garden every evening with Adam, and somehow or the other, God had an intention. He had an intention. He longed not only to walk in the garden, but also to walk in the garden that was inside Keeping in Touch 3

2 of Adam. God wanted to be in Adam. Now, Adam, he was walking with God in the evening. Did it ever occur to you that none of us know how long that happened? We do not know how long it happened. All we know is that there was a relationship between God and man wherein was all the perspicacity, the perceptiveness of man, the ability to perceive, to know, to understand, to see, and to be fully conscious of both spiritual and natural. THAT ability was in Adam, for we understand from medical science that the portion of the brain that is used is quite small compared to the total mass. It was not so in the beginning. Adam lost about 75% of his brain when he fell. There is a part of us that isn t used at all - the ability to perceive. A while ago, when we were praying, I saw people moving up and down in here. Some of them started getting mad when some of you were surrendering yourselves to God, and they walked out. God said, If you will resist the devil, he will flee from you (James 4:7). And the Word of God says that one day, when the Sons of God gathered together, Satan came also (Job 1:6, 2:1). Did you ever understand that the Bible used the word also? the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. When we gather together, there are things in us that do not please God. There are spirits in us, there are movements in us that are not of God. When you begin to praise God, these things begin to leave! Do you know why? Because darkness cannot stand when light comes in, and the moment that you open up yourself to God, light begins to flood into you and everything that is not of God begins to leave. Sometimes their movement motivates your feet to carry them out of the light. Sometimes they will leave on their own and wait outside the door for you. When you get outside, then you get back your idiosyncrasies, your bad ways. God is saying to us that something is happening to us at this time, in this age, to this people, and He wants a people to be awake and alive! Hallelujah. I could not always see. At one time, I was as blind as anybody else. But then, when Jesus came into my life, the first thing I saw was Jesus. The first thing that I saw in my Christian life was Jesus. Now, you know that Jesus is here today. Is anybody here seeing Him? Are you seeing Him? We just perceive Him. We believe that He is here. We know that He is here. When I became a young Christian, I accepted Jesus with all my heart, because before that experience I didn t know that He was alive. All of a sudden, I became conscious of Jesus Christ being alive, because He walked into my room, took away my gun, and began to minister to me. As far as I was concerned, that was reality. Then, I didn t know better, I thought that I should see Him with my eyes, my natural eyes, for He manifested to me with my natural eyes. So I began to talk with Him and deal with Him on a natural plane. Then reality for me became different than reality for other people. For me, reality was seeing Jesus and talking to Him. When I went to the minister about my visitation, he said, NO! NO! NO! It is the devil that you are talking to. So I said, Well, could the devil take away my sins? Could the devil stop me from drinking? Could the devil stop me from lying? Could the devil do this to me in order to catch me? The minister said, NO! NO! NO! If the devil even tried, he could not do righteousness. On that point his theology was right. If the devil even tried, he could not do righteousness. So, I said, Okay. It must be God. The reality that God is bringing us into at this time is the reality of the ministry, the hand. God put a fivefold ministry into the world, and the five-fold ministry is in the church. God does not want to walk with you. He wants to walk in you. The Spanish have a way of saying, vaya con Dios (walk with God). It is no longer walk with God. It is no longer the Adam manifestation. He wants the Christ manifestation. God wants to walk in you. Let s prove it. I think it is in II Corinthians where God blessed a man named Paul, and He gave him to us. The man began to see the beauty and the glory of God in the Old Testament, as no other man that we have known. Paul was seeing by the Spirit the reality of Christ, and he experienced the awaking of the mind of man to the presence of God. That is what we are talking about, and is what we need today. II Corinthians 6:16, And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. So it is the inner walking of God in us that is designed to make us the hand of God. This is the Candlestick operation. The Candlestick is hollow in the middle, and the oil is poured down into it and comes up to a level in the seven lamps, and the wicks go down into the lamps and they are lighted. Oil represents the Holy Spirit, gold is the divine nature, and the wick is humanity. Humanity dipped into divinity - the oil seeps Keeping in Touch 4

3 into the wick so that the wick becomes totally saturated, and that oil is going to prevent that wick from burning. You can use a wick in a lamp for a long time because of the oil that is in the lamp. The Spirit of God must permeate your being and take a hold of you, in order for you produce God. What God is saying in this illustration of the Candlestick is that the five-fold ministry is not always what we think it to be. We are looking at the five-fold ministry as the brothers and sisters who function in the preaching and the teaching and so on. That is not it! What it IS is that EACH OF YOU is a part of this five-fold ministry. You have some silent parts that support the rest. You are not seeing my liver, my heart or my lungs, but you are seeing the manifestations of those organs. Do you understand? So the silent members inside are even much more important than the ones that you can see function. Amen. So what God is saying is that His right hand and His holy arm are not only the Spirit of God who works in you, but you become a part of the hand of God because you lift together with God. There is no way that one hand could have lifted that podium like that. For the podium to be lifted like that, it takes two hands, one on both the left and right edges. God needs you and He anoints you for a specific Apostolic Bar purpose and for that purpose only. Now, let us look at the ministry. We hear about the apostolic ministry. We are talking about the thumb ministry. The thumb is the apostolic ministry. Now, the church must have an apostolic ministry or else it is a church without direction. God drew another picture for us. He drew a picture of the boards of the tabernacle. The boards in the tabernacle are kept in a straight line by one bar that runs from one end to another, and all are in complete order because the Spirit of God is in the board. Why did I say that? The bar there is not just wood, it is covered with gold. Don t you see? The bar is covered with gold, and it is the gold that makes it straight or else that bar would bow. The bar is 30 cubits long (a cubit is like a foot and a half). The temple cubit would be a foot and a half and a span. So we are talking about one long bar that is 45 feet long, plus 45 spans (each span is about four inches). A span is the width of your hand. We are not sure if it was the temple cubit or the natural cubit. Of course, the temple cubit was supposed to be bigger by a handbreadth than the natural cubit. So, the natural cubit would be what we would call about 18 inches, but the temple cubit would be like 22 inches. So, think of a bar that stretches approximately 60 feet long. It would bow. But it had gold on the outside, Board and Socket. and that bar kept the whole tabernacle standing like this [straight]. Let me tell you, brethren, do you know how thick the boards were? They were over six inches. You can imagine a board six inches wide and ten cubits high [15 feet tall], that thick [6 inches] with gold all around it. Can you imagine how heavy that must be? That is some weight! And it was standing on mortise and tenon. So the two legs went down, like man s legs, into the sockets, and that is what kept it standing. Therefore, from side to side it would be firm, but from the front to back, the boards would have the ability to sway forward and backward. The only thing that held it from going forward or backward was the apostolic bar, the middle bar covered with gold running from one end to the other. So you can see what has happened to the church. The church lost its apostolic vision when it began to reject the apostles of God and accepted other apostles. That is why we are in the condition that we are in, because some of the ministry that is in the church is not ordained of God. Now, behind that apostolic bar, the Lord said that there are helps and governments (I Corinthians 12:28). It is very important that some of you are helps and governments in the church. You are not ordained to preach, except to preach with your life. One day the Lord told Mavis that the women should preach with their works. When they behold your chaste behavior (I Peter 3:2). It brings correction to people when they can look at you and see how you live your life. But there is a service that each of you must do and you must either come in to God s service now or be left out. God had a time when He would allow a certain amount of slackness to be in the church. But at this time, God is saying, NO MORE SLACKNESS, MY PEOPLE MUST BE ONE! The only way that the people can be one is to be under the ministry. Do you hear me? Not minister, but ministry. The ministry that God has put in you, you had better look after it. He says, Wait upon your ministry (Romans 12:7). If God endows you with a voice, sing! If God endows you with wisdom, use it for God. Do you understand? The ministry is a spiritual endowment that God puts upon the church. Every time two or three of them gather together, God gives them their portion. That ministry is supposed to stand and minister life to the world, not just to the church, but to the world. That is why God said if you don t behave at home, you can t come into the church and prophesy. If you talk and you use your mouth as a weapon out there on the job site or anywhere you are, don t bother to try to come to church Keeping in Touch 5

4 and to speak the Word of the Lord. It will be contaminated. It will be mixed. God wants you to wait upon your ministry. Somebody says, Well, what is my ministry? That is your business! Go ask God. Go ask God. What do you do best? Jesus said to Matthew and Mark, Come! Be a scribe unto the Kingdom of God. That means to say that the Kingdom of God needs scribes. The Kingdom of God needs people who can write, who will be able to take the Word and put it in places, and divide it up where people can be fed all over the world. The Kingdom message needs to go forth. Hallelujah! Sister Terry found herself recently. She found herself recently and she just started writing like crazy. When she is not writing what she thinks in her mind, she is writing what she hears in the Body, and what the church is saying. What God told me to do is to take these machines (video equipment) and use them to record. Do you realize the blessing that you are to the people in America? People in Jamaica, Africa, ALL OF YOU? You are there manifesting. I didn t even say to George, George, let s see if we can edit these tapes. Oh no! Everything that you have done is out there. Oh yes! I go out on the streets in Montego Bay, and people say, There s the man! That s the man with the red cup! I didn t even remember that I was drinking water out of a red cup while I was ministering. A man called up proudly, and started telling them what he heard on Channel 58 and said, THAT S the MAN! I tried to get away from there quietly before they mauled me. But all of you are on there. One weekend (it was a holiday weekend), the people at the radio station wanted to have a holiday, so guess what they did? They put on Peter and left the station. He had been preaching on Saturday, the whole day, Sunday, the whole day, until Monday morning! When they came back to work, they changed the tape. They put on the first preaching where you see Peter JUMP! Praise be to God! Yes, Peter jumped! That is now what they have of him on tape. If he goes in to the Montego Bay Airport, people will point and say, That is the man. That is the man that jumped in what we saw on Channel 58! There was another time that they let him go for about 3 days. They put on the message down in Florida, and that message went on for three days straight, day and night. Hallelujah! So, what we are talking about is the Candlestick operation, where you and God bring forth light. Now, you are idly saying, Oh God! Poor me! I ve got a name for that. It s the poor me spirit. Poor me! Poor me! You are saying, Poor me! instead of doing what God wants you to do. When some of you get into trouble and start having problems, sin problems, it means that you are not practicing righteousness. You are not doing what God wants you to do, so He leaves you in the hand of the enemy to torment you. What God is speaking to me about is the five-fold ministry, and how the five-fold ministry is dished out here and there among the people. Each person here has his own part of the ministry. God will appoint a man and anoint him with the prophetic ministry, and ALL of you have the prophetic ministry in you. You all have a little part. Have you ever considered it? The Bible couldn t even name it. It says, diversities of operations (I Corinthians 12:6). Diversities of operations. It simply means that you have a dream, and the dream has a meaning to God s business, and God may give you one dream and give another one another type of dream. Like with our Brother George. He has one type of dream. He is always dreaming about his Father s house, which is God s house. He is always dreaming about the Post Office, which, as far as I am concerned, the word postman in the Greek definitely means messenger. God is talking about His messenger, and He is talking about carrying the message here, and He is talking about carrying the message there. If God wants to tell George that we should go down the back side of Dubuque and preach to the disadvantaged, He sends him down there in a dream as a postman with letters to deliver. Do you understand how God works? God is working with you, but you don t even know and you take it lightly. Now, if your mind is all corrupted, if your mind is filled with what you want (for example, somebody wants a husband or a wife), don t bother paying much attention to your dreams. Do you hear me? You just get cleaned up, because it is through your mind is the place through that God is going to minister to you. Amen. Adam was here walking with God. Do you know God walks through certain parts of you? God walks through your head, walks through your body, and sometimes walks through your feet. Hallelujah! Oh yeah! God gets in your feet so that you can t stay still and you ll begin to jump and leap! He used to do that to the priest. When the priest Poor Me Keeping in Touch 6

5 came before the shekinah glory, and the glory of God hit him, he started to leap and dance, and he would leap, and when he leapt, the bells would ring. Hallelujah! Joy bells ringing! So God is saying that He wants to walk in you, to talk in you, to be your God and for you to be His child (Leviticus 26:12). Don t you understand? The right hand wants to come together with the left hand to produce power. This helps me to understand a little about God s emotions. When I was a sinner, I had a problem, I think it was a devil possession. I could sit down very quietly and not say anything and you could provoke me, provoke me, and provoke me! But if I felt a movement that came right up through my head and went down the other foot, now you are dead. I mean, I just lost it completely. Oh yes! When I would lose it that way, I was in another realm where I thought I could do anything. I was conscious of what I was doing, but I couldn t stop myself from doing it. What I have noticed is that there are avenues in your soul. Listen to me now. There are avenues in your soul that control different parts of your body, like how the brain on the left side controls the motion on the right side, and vice versa. God has so created man, in a peculiar way, remember that man is the temple of the living God (I Corinthians 6:19). Do you notice that in His temple, they have put certain things at certain places? If you wanted to eat bread, to feed on Christ, you would have to go to the right hand side, where the Table of Shewbread is. If you wanted to light the lamp, you had to go to the left-hand side. If you wanted to burn incense, you couldn t just start burning incense anywhere in the temple. You had to go straight to the Altar of Incense. I hope I am not boring you with these details! I am just giving you what God shows me. YOU ARE A TEMPLE OF THE LIVING GOD! God has placed certain things in you. There are certain parts of your mind that God is opening up that were never opened before. The more you go into God, the more He opens up your mind. 75% of your brain is not being used. Hallelujah! Can you imagine? If God touches you and all of a sudden your brain starts working, what would happen to you? We couldn t stand you. You would have to get out of here. We would probably chain you and take you out and say you had gone crazy. I was sitting at the table with this brother. He weighed 250 pounds, bare muscle. I mean, no paunch, no nothing, just a solid man. He was the biggest man that I had ever known. He had big hands that came down to below his knees. We were sitting down at the table eating, and all of a sudden he said, GET OUT OF HERE! GET OUT, I SAID! He jumped up and ran around the house! We were sorry for the brother. He was seeing every demon that walked across the place. What a terrible situation it would be if you could see all of those devils. What would you do? What do you think about Jesus? Do you think that He was seeing them? Hallelujah! He stood up there and He said, I am the Son of Man who is in Heaven (John 3:13). He was standing right there, and He said that He was in Heaven at the same time. He was moving on all planes at the same time. He was moving on a heavenly plane in that He could be in complete contact with the Father while He was talking to you. He was talking to you, He was seeing you, He was in contact with the Father and He was seeing your condition. He was seeing your business, He was seeing what you are going to do tomorrow while He was talking to you today. His brain was different from ours. He was OPEN TO GOD. Adam had an experience with God and he found out that there was a certain point that you could go with God but you couldn t go beyond that point, and if you stepped beyond that point, you would be changed, out of the natural world. He must have been to that point. I remember that I had an experience with Jesus where I was walking with Him in a garden. He came to three little steps and He stepped up the three steps. When I was about to go up them He said, No, no. I believe that Enoch was allowed to walk up those steps, and that he went away. When He said, No, I said, But And then He said, NO! Turn back. When I turned back, He came right into me, and I began to speak in Hebrew. Do you know what that means? He does not just want to walk with us and talk with us, but He wants to walk in us and talk in us. Then He will be our God and we will be His people. Now, in your private time with God, press Him. I m challenging you. I m setting you up. You press God to come into you. Ask Him, Why won t You come into me in Your fullness? Why won t You take the areas of me that are blocking You? Why don t You take it? I give You all authority to take these areas. Come into me! You challenge God! Hallelujah! You see, one scripture says that it is the time of the singing of the birds (Song of Solomon 2:12). The scripture also says, Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruit (Song of Solomon 4:16b). Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruit. She was inviting Jesus Christ to come into her, and eat of the pleasant fruits, the fruits of the Spirit that were in her. Hallelujah! God Almighty is speaking to a people at this time as never before. We are to be the ENOCH people. We are to be the people who go through the veil. We must go through the veil. Before the priest could go through that veil, he had to make an offering, and the offering was different than the one that he made out in the Outer Court. Out in Keeping in Touch 7

6 the Outer Court, he killed the lamb, or the bull. He took the blood and put it in a basin. He carried the blood with him. This time he was not going to kill anybody s lamb, and he was not going to kill any bull. He was going to offer himself. Now, he was offering himself for Israel, for the sin of Israel, and for his own sins. He couldn t sleep the night before. They would not allow him to sleep. They kept reading the scriptures to him, and every time he would nod, they would wake him, and read the scriptures, and kept reading and reading and reading all night. Because when he goes into that Holy of Holies, he has to go in PURE. So he takes the incense, and the incense is a type of the soul. Do you know that when the incense burns, it leaves no residue? It leaves no ashes, nothing. He takes the incense and he says, LORD GOD, for my sins, and for the sins of Israel. He puts it on the fire and it takes it and it goes up and then the Bible says he had to wait until it covered the Mercy Seat, lest you die (Leviticus 16:13). He said that if you go in there and the smoke hasn t covered the Mercy Seat, you are a dead man. He waits until that smoke goes in and covers the Mercy Seat. Then he comes in and makes his offering before God. Now, if you can understand all of that, you will understand that your soul must be offered as a sacrifice before God before you have the Enoch experience of walking through the veil. We are to walk through the veil and still remain Mercy Seat here. God has ordained that a people will go through the veil and experience the resurrection life. We are to experience the resurrection life and still remain here on the earth. Do you understand? Now the resurrection life that I am talking about is that when men come to you and want to kill you, you will dare them. Go ahead! Kill me! The day will come when somebody will kill you. And three days after the person kills you, they will look you in the eye and say, WHAT? DIDN T I KILL YOU? And you will say, YES! But now I am alive for evermore. Jesus took away the keys of death and hell (Revelation 1:18). So therefore, His sons cannot go into death and hell anymore. We have ascended beyond death and hell. Hallelujah! This is the place where God is bringing us. Today God is asking a company of people to come in! But for now the ministry at this time is to be given to the church. Ephesians 4:12, For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: What does that mean? Do you think that it means that the ministry is going to be completed? Come to its completion, its end? That the prophets will cease? That the apostles will cease? Or that the apostle will become the Body, the prophet will become the Body, the evangelist will become the Body? God has set some temporary caretakers to help the Body to come into Christ. I Corinthians 13:10, But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. For the prophet can only prophesy a part and the evangelist can only evangelize a part, and the apostles can only apostle in part, but Christ is the fullness! Hallelujah! So therefore, that Christ may dwell in you (Ephesians 3:17). There will be in you the fullness of Christ so that the Body becomes Christ. Glory to God! When the scriptures speak of the manchild, do we know what the manchild is? You see, God uses all these little analogies and phrases. A woman is pregnant, so the church is impregnated with something, the manchild. The manchild church is a church that has Jesus Christ as its head, when Jesus is completely placed on His throne in our hearts. He becomes the Head of the church, and we don t do anything any more. No man will be there - man will be gone. So John walks down the street, and everybody says, Hi, John. Didn t we know his father and mother? And didn t he grow up among us? Isn t he a realtor? Didn t we know him? John laughs because they don t know him. They don t know him. Do you remember what happened to Jesus? They said, Is not this the carpenter s son? (Matthew 13:55). We know him. He built the chair for Miss Jane over there, and he built a table over there for so and so. We have the table, so we have proof that this man is a carpenter. They didn t know Him. So when Christ takes over, man is displaced. There are people saying that we are talking about we being manifested sons and things like that - NONSENSE! I wish I were. We are not manifested sons, but we believe in it. One day, not far away - and I can tell you what day it will be. You don t like dates, do you? Well, I m going to tell you what date. Any day that you see the world come to the brink of destruction, you say, Jesus, I am ready, because Jesus must activate the church to save the world, for His world is in danger of being destroyed by the devil, and God will not allow the devil to destroy the world. So at least we have that knowledge. We will be activated just in the nick of time, just when midnight is getting so dark that no morning would be there, it would have destroyed the whole world. At that time God will bring forth His saints. He said that the first thing that they will do is stop the war. Hallellujah! Stop the war! Proclaim the Sabbath! No man shall kill any more. Stop it! If any man raise his hand, he will be done. Amen. God said to rule with a rod of iron (Revelation 12:5), to shepherd the people with a shepherd s staff of iron. That is what the manchild Keeping in Touch 8

7 is going to do. We can t do it now. We don t have Christ as our Head, as He should be. The fullness is not there. But let us begin to press God. Press God! Do you know why? God will never make you perfect without making me perfect. The brothers were saying they were perfect, and Paul said, Well, very well. I wish to God it were so, for I would have profited myself. He is not going to make one person perfect and then you become another Christ, and everybody starts worshipping you. What He is going to do is to perfect all of us together. So there will be a company of people who understand what is going on, and that our duty is to save the world, to save humanity. So therefore, the problem that we have among ourselves here is that we need to see the ministry functioning. Each person should be asking God, What can I do? As Brother Burt was telling us last night, his father said, Well, sweep the floor. Sweep the floor. God, what is my purpose? God, what am I supposed to be doing? What part of the Body am I? He sent you out there to sweep the floor, and all of a sudden while you are sweeping the floor, you find yourself. Amen. You clean up refrigerators, and then you find yourself. God is now bringing the Body together as one. He said that you would be one, even as God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost are one (John 17:21). Do you know why? Because there is one Spirit, and there is no division. Do you know what the apostolic business is? All it is is somebody who hears from God and gives it to you. So the apostolic vision is being sent out to the brethren, and the prophetic Word comes forth. The evangelist begins to do his thing. Some people believe that if you are an evangelist, you must go out and get revelations from God. Any evangelist that is getting a revelation from God, he is not an evangelist. He is an apostle. In other words, the revelation of the Spirit of the Word, the revelation comes from God through the apostolic ministry to the brethren. You take it and you begin to function under the apostolic ministry as parts of this ministry! The next thing, the prophet gets a Word, and he comes out with it, and the Word is to quicken you, to strengthen you, to help you to follow the apostolic Word. If there is another word coming, it is not God. God says, Know them that labor among you (I Thessalonians 5:12). So when I give out this Word, some of the brethren are saying, Brother ducille wants everybody to follow him. It couldn t be further from the truth. God told me to have nothing to do with the bride. Keep away from the bride. Don t bring forth any of your thoughts or things in the bride. Keep away from the bride. That was my instruction. Amen. I hope I am accomplishing it. I try my best. So, I don t want anybody to follow me. What I am afraid of is that you are not following what God is telling me, and that s the problem. Because, when God calls a person, and God gives him a direct Word, it is not something that he made up. I didn t go to Bible school to learn it. I just listen to God and He carries me through the waters, through the fire. I gave up my profession, because I couldn t even think like an accountant any more. I had to give it up. I gave up everything that I knew and I began to concentrate on the Word of God. What you have is a ministry, a function that I have nothing to do with. I listen and I speak to you. I don t write down what I have to say. I was writing down some scriptures, and I haven t been able to read them. Of course they are coming to me, so I don t need to read them. I just call them out. What I am trying to say is that you have a privilege that not many people have, to hear from someone who has a fresh flow from God. Now, if it is not God, you must tell me. If it is not God, you must tell me. The fruit of what I am saying must come forth in you or else it is a waste of time. So the point is that God appoints men and women, amen! Men and women with good faculties, who can listen and say, Wait, this didn t feel right! This did not sound right! When you say that, it is a blessing to me. When anybody comes to me and says, What you preached tonight didn t sound right! it is a blessing to me. The blessing is that I don t know for myself anything. If you say something, I go back to God and say, Did You tell me this, or did this come out of my mind? If ever I find that it came out of my mind, I will be the first one to correct it. The reason is, I must bring forth Christ in His people. I cannot fail God. I cannot say things that are in my own mind. I cannot behave as I would love to sometimes. But God wants the Word to come straight to you. Now, the Word that I am seeing before me is the church functioning in its place. There is a bad habit among us. Everybody wants to do something else besides what God wants us to do. I never forgot the musician that came to me, the pianist in Gatlinburg. He came to me and said, What can I do? What can I do to really please God? I said, Son, fast tomorrow, and come into the meeting. Pray to God that He would use you as a musician. I had never seen anything like that. The young man was so energetic and wanted to see God use him. He got in there first. From six something (the meeting was at seven o clock) he got in there and jumped on that piano, and he began to just play, just played from his soul. Nobody passed that door. People came into the door, but they didn t go to their seats. They came and fell at the altar. The service started with an altar call. Everybody was just weeping. The man was just playing. Nobody was even singing! The same Keeping 9in Touch

8 sort of thing happened with Brother Charles Finney. You must believe in divine power. I see some of us don t believe in power. Now, God taught me how to believe in power, how to pray before coming to service, I want six souls. I came in there after I prayed that and the place was empty. Mavis and I prayed for six souls one night and we came in to the church building and it was empty. Nobody came that night! But we started to sing and to praise God and somebody came in and went to the altar. Another one came in - six people came in to the altar and were saved that night. Divine power! DIVINE POWER! Begin to use this power, brethren. Begin to use this power. Some of you, God has anointed you to pray, and you have the greatest power in the church, and nobody notices you. You have the power to pray and ask God to move according to your prayer. Now, I remember when I used to love to see people get knocked down on the floor. You know, we go through all these stages. I was a young man. The first day that God called me, I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and went into a Holy Quietness Church, and the whole church fell down flat on the floor and couldn t get up. After that, I kind of felt that everywhere I went, people must fall down on the floor. You know, when you touch the person and the person doesn t fall down, you have the tendency to give him a little help, (you push a bit)! In fighting, there is a hold that you use that you touch a person on his forehead. Anybody that you touch on his head like that, he has to go back and he falls. I see them doing it in church, putting their hands on them, on their foreheads. It used to be Jujitsu in those days - BAM! On your forehead and you fell down. And I see them doing it in the church. But you know one day God came to me and said, What do you really want? Do you want to humble the people so they fall down? Or do you want to bless them? I said, I want to bless them. From that day on, rarely anybody fell down in my service because I wanted to bless them. I don t especially want them to fall down. That doesn t gratify me anymore. I just want to BLESS them. So the prophets prophesy. Now, what is prophecy? You get used to Brother Burt, and you come and you say, Oh God, I want a Word from You tonight! And you are looking for him to come over there and to say unto you, The Lord would say unto you brother/sister, so and so and so and so. That is only one little-bitty part of prophecy. The prophetic ministry is preaching, and it can be anything you say. I went up to someone and I said, Hi. How are you? I haven t seen you in a long time. You must be misbehaving. I just intended for it to be funny. It was not funny. The person was badly hurt because I made light of a situation that I didn t know about. A famous one I will tell you. We went into service, and I was preaching restitution. A sister was sitting down here in the front. I said, If you steal a man s cow, and you say you repented, why don t you give back his cow? She got up and left, and half of the congregation walked out with her. I had no idea what was happening. Then a dear sister came to my wife and said, Sister ducille, Brother ducille is a fine brother, a good preacher and everything like that, but why does he have to be so explicit at times? So she said, What? What do you mean? What did he do? She said, He must have known that the sister s brother stole the cow. I had no idea of any cow business. Do you see? I found out I could not make a joke. To this day, I dare not make a joke with you. I ll get into trouble, because I m going to speak your business. I met a brother, and I shook his hand, and I said, Man, you are a beast. Oh God! I am glad that he forgave me, because he was dealing with that situation. He got up in a meeting and testified, and said that, I am just a beast! because he had done something that his own conscience was against God. That is prophecy in the church! Prophecy from your lips! If you curse somebody, they are cursed. If you bless somebody, they are blessed. Do you hear me? THERE- FORE, BLESS EVERYBODY! That is prophetic power and ministry that is in the Body. The spirits take the words that you speak from your mouth! If you speak a good word, the spirits of God take it and bless the person. If you speak a bad word, the devils take it and SLAM! In Fort Lauderdale, a dear sister that was a friend of ours was driving down the street, and you know that boys can sometimes be very rude and terrible. About six boys came with their bicycles and began to slowly ride in front of her. She tried to go this way (left) and they went (left), and she tried to go this way (right) and they went (right). They backed her all around and they were just laughing at her, and she got so mad. She said to one boy, I hope that someone will come and knock you down and kill you! She went down to the store. When she was coming back, she was just in time to see them putting him in an ambulance. A car with an impatient driver had come and the boy tried the trick with him and he stepped on the gas and knocked the boy to pieces. She never forgot it, for she felt that she did it, she commanded it. She commanded it. The Spirit of God talks about commanding the blessing. You have the power to command the blessing and to command the curse. That is the reason to get rid of that bad thinking, that evil thinking. Somebody hurts you and you start to think evil, just get rid of that thought immediately. Ask God to help you, tell somebody to pray with you to get rid of it, because your mind, your thinking will motivate every spirit in hell to go out there and to do what you tell it to do. 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9 in your tongue (James 3:8-10). The evangelistic ministry must preach the revealed truths of the Body. God said that at the end of time, all of the mysteries of the gospel would be finished. That means that God is telling somebody. The secrets of God are being revealed to somebody. Now, when I met Jesus, Jesus began to talk to me and to tell me some things that the church never heard before. I wondered if Paul knew some of the things when he wrote some of the books we have in the Bible? Or whether God just prophetically used him? You know, the prophet can prophesy above his head. The prophet doesn t know what he is saying. He prophesies above his head. He himself is sitting down waiting to see the thing come to pass, because he never thought of it before he prophesied it. So therefore, the church now, the Body of Christ now, is going to speak words beyond its own understanding. I am talking about in your daily life. In your daily life you are speaking things. Never mind, child, God is going to bless you. The LORD will bless you. Let us pray. Oh God, bless this person. And you have let loose deliverance to that person. As long as that person lives, that blessing is going to follow them, because you pronounced it. The right hand will not lift this book [completely], but the left hand goes along with it [and the book is lifted completely]. This is what God is doing with you. You are the left hand that will come together with the right hand of God. God and man, working together to bring forth light in the earth. Every mystery of God is being revealed to this church. Now, my detractors will say that Cecil says that we are the only ones getting the truth. Now, if you notice, that is not what I said. This church means this church over the whole world that is walking with God. The ears must begin to hear. Do you notice that we have five discernment gifts on the outside: hearing, seeing, feeling, tasting and smelling? You are the outside part of God s discernment. You are hearing. You are seeing. You are smelling. You taste. You don t even know what you are doing. Some times you wonder what is going on. You don t know that you are smelling. But, let me give you what we mean by a smell. A spirit can come in here on a certain spiritual frequency. I m using words that you probably need to consider. Frequency - a spirit walks in through that door and a spirit comes in on a certain frequency, and if you are one who hears from God, you don t hear him. If you are one who sees all the visions, you will never see him. If you are one who feels, you will never feel him. But he is coming in on the frequency of a smell, for you will never see a smell, and you will never hear a smell, and you will never taste a smell. However, there are some people here who God has put on that smelling frequency. You alone can discern that spirit and, if you are functioning, you will. If you are not functioning, that spirit will have freedom in the midst of the congregation. Amen. We were looking at a brother preaching, just preaching. I wouldn t even say there was body language, because there is a spiritual discernment that you exercise that the person doesn t necessarily have to have the body language. You are talking about psychology now. BUT you discern that that man is unclean. Now, you ask yourself, Why did I discern that the man is unclean? Why did God set that in the Body, that I can discern uncleanness in the ministration of God s business? The moment that you discern it you become responsible. The moment that you discern it in a person in the ministry or otherwise, you have become responsible. You need to pray for him. God wants somebody to pray for him. God wants somebody to pray for him, but some of us say, Hey, h e is unclean. We want nothing to do with him. You do the very opposite of what the Spirit of God wants you to do. That is us. That is humanity. Keep away from that brother. He is unclean. You have it, and we can do everything. There is a vision in the church. I will give you a scripture here. Turn to Mark 8:22, And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him. 23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. That s peculiar. I ve never seen Jesus do that before. 23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. Why did He do that? Isn t it peculiar for Jesus to do that? He did not do that to anyone before, to ask him, What have you seen? Let s see what the man saw. 8:24, And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking. 25 After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly. Brethren, what is Keeping in Touch 11

10 this? Did Jesus make a mistake and give him magnifying eyes? You know what I mean. Did He make a mistake? If He didn t make a mistake, He deliberately did it. How do you see that? The Holy Spirit is the eye of the church. It makes the church to see, and we see visions, and we have dreams, and we see things, and so on. Now, Jesus touched this man s eyes. He put spit on them. That means to say that He took His own Blood (spit is part of the bodies) and He put it on the man s eyes, and He created vision in the man that was more than what the man could handle. That man represents the church, right? If that man represents the church, it means that the vision that God is giving us has to be limited, according to the condition of the church. That man was seeing like someone looking through a magnifying glass. His eyes were no longer 20/20, they were magnified. He saw it magnified. He saw tall men like trees, tall big things. Then Jesus touched him again, and his vision was normal. I think it is a message that He is sending to us. God is going to give us a measure; He is going to give us the ability to see in measure. That is, at this time, He is anointing the eyes of the church to see, and as we see, if He would give us the real thing, we would be seeing too much. So He is telling us that there is another vision beyond what we are seeing. So the eyes of the church must see. But hear this! If you see, and you keep it to yourself, it is no good. That is why God placed elders in the church. Elders are supposed to be people who are older spiritually that can look at a matter and if they don t understand it, they can ask God to tell us what the meaning of this or that is. But don t take your dreams lightly and throw them away. If you do that, then you are rejecting God, for God is now bringing back the eyes of the church to see, not only for myself, but to see for the church. Hallelujah! So therefore, you have the evangelists, the shepherds and the teachers. God is therefore calling people to function in their own capacity. God is calling to His anointed. So let the Son shine out... By Terry Smith The last few days it has been very cloudy and very little sunshine has been able to peek out through the clouds as I have been driving to work. Each of these days, I couldn t help but think of the clouds - the veil of our flesh that clouds the GLORY OF THE LORD from shining through us. I could not help but think of the way the light on one side of the clouds is very bright and glorious and radiant - while dull darkness was over the earth that was in my view. The darkness was gloomy and lifeless, and I knew that on the other side of the clouds there was radiant glory in the sunshine. Am I bringing a picture to your mind? I then thought how I am the clouds covering the GLORY OF THE LORD that is within me. Inside of me is this radiant beauty that wants to shine and bless the dark world around me by flowing through me, whether I am aware of it or not. Soon there came a few little cracks through the clouds that let radiant streams of bright light through the clouds, and I began to think about what the sunshine does in the natural, while also being very aware of the spiritual implications. The sunshine brings with it so many things. The earth becomes alive and warms in the sunshine. The plants grow in the sunshine. Day comes forth in our lives when the sun shines. How wonderfully the Lord illustrates how HE desires to flow through us. He desires to bring LIGHT and LIFE to those needy souls around us. He desires to bring day to the darkness in those who are hurting and in need of His LOVE. Also, when the light comes forth, the darkness flees - this is perhaps the most beautiful trait of the Lord in our souls; the law that LIFE and LIBERTY IN CHRIST cancels out the law of DEATH in our souls as we surrender, repent, submit, and obey our wonderful Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. Just a thought! Keeping in Touch 12